December 11, 2014, Filed Under: Conservation, Theatre + Performing ArtsRemarkable set of miniature Masonic theater scenery receives conservation treatment The performing arts collection at the Harry Ransom Center includes a remarkable set of theater backdrops, all in miniature. This collection of 112 backdrops, along with other free-standing scene elements, depicts grand symbolic imagery: Egyptian landscapes, biblical imagery, grand architecture, and even catacombs. These scenes were created to support the… read more
October 14, 2014, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Theatre + Performing ArtsDirector draws upon Tennessee Williams collection for UT production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” A production of Tennessee Williams’s iconic play A Streetcar Named Desire opened on campus last week, and director Jess Hutchinson delved into the Tennessee Williams collection at the Ransom Center to guide some of her work on the play. Set in New Orleans, William’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic centers around fading… read more
September 22, 2014, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsJohn Lahr delves into “treasure trove of Williams material” for new biography, “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” John Lahr, a renowned theater critic who wrote for The New Yorker for more than two decades, took up the task of continuing to record and analyze Tennessee Williams’s life in 2007. In Lahr’s new biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton), he draws upon his subject’s plays,… read more
